| Volunteer Fighting Corps | |
|---|---|
 Female students receive training in firearm handling | |
| Founded | 1945 |
| Disbanded | 1945 |
| Country |  Japan |
| Type | Militia, Civil Defence |
Volunteer Fighting Corps (国民義勇戦闘隊, Kokumin Giyū Sentōtai) were armed civil defense units planned in 1945 in the Empire of Japan as a last desperate measure to defend the Japanese home islands against the projected Allied invasion during Operation Downfall (Ketsugo Sakusen) in the final stages of World War II.
They were the Japanese equivalent of the German Volkssturm and British Home Guard.[1] Its commander-in-chief was former Prime Minister General Kuniaki Koiso.[2]
- ^ Hasegawa, Tsuyoshi (2007). The end of the Pacific war: Reappraisals. Stanford University Press. pp. 75–77. ISBN 978-0-8047-5427-9.
- ^ Shillony, Ben-Ami (1981). Politics and Culture in Wartime Japan. Oxford University Press. pp. 82–83. ISBN 0-19-820260-1.